I think is funny that the US is “coming to the rescue” once again this time in Syria by launching “tactical” strikes. We all know how tactical strikes go, one person of interest killed next to 100 innocents, but we may have gotten that one guy who may or may not have been a “bad” guy… It’s absurd really, What’s even worse is that more Americans are talking about Billy Rays’ hick daughter dancing on MTV than the fact that the US is once again launching a war on a nation that we have no right to interfere with. Strap up them boots boys cause your going into fight another needless war to further the agenda of some rich politicians that have never even considered going into battle themselves! Good for America another generation of fucked up PTSD kids for some rich fools agenda! WAKE UP!!!!!

The war machine keeps turning, and boy is it ugly, The ball-less politicians come up with reasons we need to enter yet another pointless war and it is pissing me off! Why Iran, they havent invaded anyone in hundreds of years, yes they hate us because we took out their elected leader in 1953 to install the brutal Sha that killed tens of thousands, so what right? We need a few new rules to war. First off we bank online we can vote online, any war that the president or any other politician wants to get us into we vote for, fairly, democratically online! Second we need more leaders like George Washington, if you want a war fine but you lead the charge, then we will see how many battles we get our noses into! Third thing we need to do is stop calling retaliation terrorism, if we attack a country and they counter it’s not terrorism, it’s a counter maneuver! Next point is why are Israel and the US the only people allowed to arm themselves? Seems like that is not fair, if a county wants arms how are they any different from my redneck 2nd amendment screaming redneck buddies?

CMON people it’s a new world adapt or die! and let your politician know that if any more American blood is going to be spilt in a new war it should be their own first

Ever wonder why the CIA needs so much of your hard earned tax dollars? Well according to Reuters here is the scoop.

Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, according to the New York Times, citing current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.

The so-called “ghost money” was meant to buy influence for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but instead fuelled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington’s exit strategy from Afghanistan, the newspaper quoted U.S. officials as saying.

“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan”, one American official said, “was the United States.”

The CIA declined to comment on the report and the U.S. State Department did not immediately comment. The New York Times did not publish any comment from Karzai or his office.

“We called it ‘ghost money’,” Khalil Roman, who served as Karzai’s chief of staff from 2002 until 2005, told the New York Times. “It came in secret and it left in secret.”

For more than a decade the cash was dropped off every month or so at the Afghan president’s office, the newspaper said.

Handing out cash has been standard procedure for the CIA in Afghanistan since the start of the war.

The cash payments to the president’s office do not appear to be subject to oversight and restrictions placed on official American aid to the country or the CIA’s formal assistance programs, like financing Afghan intelligence agencies, and do not appear to violate U.S. laws, said the New York Times.

There was no evidence that Karzai personally received any of the money, Afghan officials told the newspaper. The cash was handled by his National Security Council, it added.

U.S. and Afghan officials familiar with the payments were quoted as saying that the main goal in providing the cash was to maintain access to Karzai and his inner circle and to guarantee the CIA’s influence at the presidential palace, which wields tremendous power in Afghanistan’s highly centralized government.

Much of the money went to warlords and politicians, many with ties to the drug trade and in some cases the Taliban, the New York Times said. U.S. and Afghan officials were quoted as saying the CIA supported the same patronage networks that U.S. diplomats and law enforcement agents struggled to dismantle, leaving the government in the grip of organized crime.

In 2010, Karzai said his office received cash in bags from Iran, but that it was a transparent form of aid that helped cover expenses at the presidential palace. He said at the time that the United States made similar payments.

The latest New York Times report said much of the Iranian cash, like the CIA money, went to pay warlords and politicians.

For most of Karzai’s 11-year reign, there has been little interest in anti-corruption in the army or police. The country’s two most powerful institutions receive billions of dollars from donors annually but struggle just to recruit and maintain a force bled by high rates of desertion.

Here is my thought for the day, America has become similar to Rome, we are spreading ourselves far to thin. We have been in an endless war since WW2, we have had the war on drugs, the war on terror, not to mention all the other international wars. Then after a war, we set up military bases in all these locations, we have bases in 160+ countries. This is where my Rome comparison comes in we have spread ourselves so thin and spend exponential amount of funds overseas when one in four American children don’t even know where their next meal is coming from.

Another point is why do we need bases in so many locations? We have zero foreign bases in the states, imagine if South Korea, or Saudi Arabia bought a few thousand acres of American soil to set up forces here at home. You think that would fly? You think the locals say in Texas, wouldn’t mind if the Saudi’s set up a military force outside of Houston? So imagine what all the locals think in those 160 locations that we have military bases. I have been living in Alice Springs, Australia for the past 6 months and there is a large US military base here, the locals can’t stand it, and this is in Australia, a sworn Ally!

Why do we have to be the world police? Why are we not focusing on our own problems which grow daily? I understand that we have foreign interests that have to be protected, but that is our own damn fault and what caused this issue in the first place. Rome spread too far and too thin, eventually it couldn’t control all of its interests and it crumbled, rather fast, the US is heading that way my friends. I am going for my Australian Citizenship and I am so happy to live in a Country that has money to feed its people. The Minimum wage here is $13 to $17 per hour depending on where you live, every single citizen has health care, teachers start at 60k per year, every item I buy at the grocery store is made or grown in Australia! I am done with America for now, you better open your eyes, or you feel the heat, just like Rome as it burned.